Each weeknight at 7:00 join Coleen Cook and Russell Gant for some of the best music ever written. Music that’s good enough to earn the title “Masterwork”. Listen for full length performances and large scale works like Carmina Burana, Mahler Symphonies, some new recordings, and music that will be performed in our local concert halls. A full masterwork is featured each weeknight at 7:00 on Classical WSMR 89.1.
Classical Spotlight
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Join Classical WSMR’s Russell Gant Friday morning at 11:00 a.m., February 10th, as he welcomes Metropolitan Opera baritone Jason Stearns to our Sarasota Studio. Jason performs at the Church of the Redeemer, Sunday, February 12 at 5 p.m. in a concert featuring arias he has performed at the Met. Learn more about that performance, and hear Jason sing live on the radio on Classical WSMR 89.1 & 103.9. For information about Stearns performance call 941.955.4263 or visit www.redeemersarasota.org.
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Sarasota Concert Association's Great Performers season continues with acclaimed Russian pianist Kirill Gerstein on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8 p.m. Gerstein has quickly proven to be one of today’s most intriguing young pianists of classical music and jazz.The concert is at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Sarasota. Tickets and information by calling 941-955-0040 or visiting: www.sarasotaconcertassociation.org.
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Public Arts: Classical Music
Meryl Streep talks about her operatic past, an opera debuts and a cruise goes nowhere: all the classical music news that's fit to link....
Odd bedfellows perhaps, but each is adept at creating claustrophobic spaces of melancholy....
Gustavo con Elmo, leis for a new Hawaiian symphony and head-bumping in Moscow: all the classical music news that's fit to link....
Performance Today from American Public Media
This week's contestant is George Sakakini from Beaufort, South Carolina....
This week's contestant is Debra Heller from Spring Mills, Pennsylvania....
This week's contestant is Aaron Hassell from Columbia, South Carolina....
WSMR Music Notes
WSMR Music Programs
Each weekday morning listeners enjoy classical music with insight and wit provided by Russell Gant. He finds the interesting stories and history that makes this music come alive. Find out how relevant classical music can be to your life by listening each weekday morning starting at 6:00 AM.
Join Bethany Cagle every weekday at 11:00 AM for your favorite classical selections. Bethany adds a superb touch of class to the station, and brings you the interesting stories behind the music. Listen as you go about your busy day. You’ll find Bethany’s the perfect companion on the radio.
Looking for a great way to unwind in the late afternoon? WSMR 89.1 has inspiring classical music to fill your days with, weekdays from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM and Noon to 5:00 PM on Saturdays, with classical music host Coleen Cook. She’s a good radio companion who brings you wonderful music and interesting background information about the composers who wrote it. She also helps you stay up-to-date information on what's happening in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!
Sunday Baroque allows you an opportunity each week to explore Baroque and early music (written before 1750). Composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel were the cornerstones of this era, with masterpieces including the Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music, and the Brandenburg Concertos.
Sunday Baroque celebrates the current wealth of recorded repertoire available, with great performances by yesterday's and today's best performers.
SymphonyCast is a two-hour weekly program featuring a full-length concert by a national or international symphony orchestra. Concerts are drawn from Europe's leading ensembles, along with U.S. orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra.
WSMR National Programming
Now in its tenth season, From the Top, with host Christopher O'Riley, is a weekly radio series that showcases the nation's most outstanding young classical musicians. Each one-hour program presents pre-collegiate musicians in live performances that are combined with lively interviews, unique pre-produced segments, lighthearted sketches and musical games.
Performance Today is a two hour weekday program which features classical music in concert from American Public Media studios and sites across the nation and around the world, as well as classical music news, interviews and features. Fred Child hosts each weekday, and brings you some of the most remarkable live concert performances…sometimes within hours after they were performed!
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Jay Hunter Morris has become a surprise hit as Siegfried, the Norse hero in Wagner's Ring Cycle — widely considered one of the most challenging roles in opera....
Meryl Streep talks about her operatic past, an opera debuts and a cruise goes nowhere: all the classical music news that's fit to link....
Just in time for Valentine's Day, classics that depict a lot more than just cuddling....
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence....
Watch some classical musicians' star turns on 'Sesame Street,' from Yo-Yo Ma to Gustavo Dudamel....
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